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The Grammar of Q: Q-Particles, Wh-Movement, and Pied-Piping

The Grammar of Q: Q-Particles, Wh-Movement, and Pied-Piping

Cable, Seth

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 0195392264
ISBN13: 9780195392265
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 3 2010
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The Grammar of Q puts forth a novel syntactic and semantic analysis of wh-questions, one that is based upon in-depth study of the Tlingit language, an endangered and under-documented language of North America. A major consequence of this new approach is that the phenomenon classically dubbed pied-piping does not actually exist.

Cable begins by arguing that wh-fronting in Tlingit does not involve a syntactic relationship between interrogative C and the wh-word. Rather, it involves a probe/Agree relation between C and an overt Q-particle (or Q) c-commanding the wh-word. Fronting of the wh-word in Tlingit is a mere by-product of fronting the QP projected by this Q. From this core observation, he develops a syntax and semantics for Tlingit wh-questions.

Given the strong similarity between the wh-constructions of Tlingit and those of more widely studied languages, Cable applies his analysis to a range of other languages and finds that such a Q-based theory holds a number of interesting consequences in syntax and semantics.

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